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Matrix Network Hits 60 Million Users (news.itsfoss.com)
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Not sure why Signal gets all the attention when Matrix is much more successful at spreading open source messaging and is also decentralized.

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[–] poVoq@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

~~Maybe some New Vector press release: https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/103000/decentralised-matrix-network-hits-60-million-users-sets-sights-on-100-million/ ?~~

But they have been IMHO artificially inflating user numbers by not counting only active users.

[–] testman@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

~~> The press release you're looking for is no longer available.
Please use the menu above to view other relevant releases. heh
Now I wonder whether I should delete the posts that I made on Reddit.~~

actually, Matthew (the main Matrix dude) clarified this:

the >60M users (actual figure is 64M) is based on the phone-home reporting to matrix.org that synapse optionally does
the graph looks like this:
Screenshot 2022-07-14 at 10.58.51.png
of these, around 30M are natively on Matrix (the others are bridged in from other platforms)
and of those about 14M are long-term matrix users

[–] poVoq@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That's a much better response. 14 million sounds more realistic. Very strange that they count bridged users (30 million!) as matrix users though.

[–] singpolyma@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

By that count we could also count every Matrix user as a Jabber user. And every SMS user!

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